Another way that you can effectively make changes to the shape in your…photographs is by using the Warp tool.…A lot of times when you use this tool, what you'll want to do is make a selection…of the area that you want to work on, and then access this tool by way of Free Transform.…Let's take a look at how we can do this.…Here we'll go ahead and select our Rectangular Marquee tool; we will increase…the Feather a little bit, just to soften our edges.…And then we're going to click and drag over the jaw here on the right side,…because what I want to do is just push that in. Because of the way that the…image was captured, that jaw looks a little bit too big; there is this imbalance here.…

So to correct that, we'll make this selection, then we'll press Command+J on a…Mac, or Control+J on Windows, and that will copy that selection to a new layer. We'll…name that new layer jaw.…Well now that we have that on a separate layer, we can then access Free…Transform. You can press Command+T to do that, or you can go to the Edit menu, and…

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5/25/2012

In this course, photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig details the tools every photographer needs to retouch portraits to make them look their best while remaining authentic. The course includes an overview of the retouching process and how to develop a plan for a retouching project.

After exploring techniques to improve the overall photo, Chris shares his techniques for reducing wrinkles, enhancing eyes and other facial features, improving hair, and retouching makeup. The course concludes with a look at retouching skin and reshaping portions of a portrait using transformations, the Warp tool, and the Liquify filter.